Posted Monday January 12 2015 at 10:01 pm
in News
Our good friend Mihoko Wakabayashi of SAORI Worcester along with Sumiyo Toribe and Tomo Sakai will exhibit their work together in a group show entitled "Harmony/和" at the Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester from January 15 - February 28, 2015.
The artists' work relates to their life in America, and their connection to Japan. They all strive for a condition of 和 (wa), a Japanese word meaning harmony.
Opening reception will be from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on Thursday, January 15, 2015 with artists talk at 6pm.
Posted Thursday January 08 2015 at 05:51 am
in Call For Artists
The Alliance of Artists Communities is partnering with the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to provide 12 residencies for visual artists and writers with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) at three host sites: Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL), and Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM).
Creative Access offers artists with SCI the rare opportunity for concentrated time dedicated to their creative practice in a supportive residency community. Awardees will be offered a one-month residency at one of the three host sites, including room and board, a $500 stipend, plus room/board and travel support ($250) for a personal assistant/caregiver if needed.
The deadline to apply is January 15, 2015.
More information and application.
Posted Monday December 29 2014 at 9:32 pm
in Education
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications.
1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
